Kazacos steps into AI to transform education

IT industry veteran and entrepreneur, Peter Kazacos has another venture brewing in the form of Kazacos AI, which was kicked off a couple of years ago and has now brought its first product to market, focusing on the childcare industry.

Cameron Aume is also part of the team as CTO and co-founder. 

Kazacos AI is predominantly focused on leveraging AI to transform business processes, using a culmination of the latest AI technologies and platforms based on its Kazacos Intelligence System Toolkit (KIST).

The first product to launch is childcare.tools which allows educators to create daily communications, learning stories, programs, and more administrative tasks within minutes, significantly improving efficiency. 

Kazacos himself has been a pioneer in the IT industry and also within the early childhood sector, running multiple centres and technology programs across many brands. 

His aim with Kazacos AI is to enhance and revolutionise childhood education in Australia by transforming traditional teaching methods with innovative AI tools.

“It’s focused on what we think is the next big wave,” Kazacos said in an interview with ARN. 

“We’ve taken a very client centric approach of really understanding the problems, skillsets of the users and trying to utilise those skillsets to the best of our abilities. 

“We’re optimising their workflow so that they can reduce repetitive tasks and empowering them to do exciting work.”

In developing the childcare.tools product, Aume added it has been able to work alongside child care educators in helping to shape the product and user experience across various age groups.

“Educators are required to report on how they’ve met different outcomes of the learning framework, which is different in every state and territory,” he said. “The iterative design process is extremely fundamental to the success of our tools. We test all of our products with educators and get their feedback to shape the future of the product.”

Kazacos said it will be looking to work with partners that have clients within the education sector and will also extend its product reach into the financial market space.

“We’re accelerating the products that we have in the pipeline, which is our main focus and then also expanding into different markets such as financial services and other adjacent areas,” Kazacos said.

“We want to grow and improve workflows. If there are integrators that want specific tools developed, we can also do that.”